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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 28, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 22.

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SANTA ROSA, CAL.

[Abridged from the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.]
The work at Santa Rosa, where Brn. Healey and Rice are laboring, is moving steadily onward. Some are giving up tobacco and other bad habits. Yesterday, Nov. 10, seven were baptized.
The pastor of the Presbyterian church of this place, in preaching on the Sabbath question, said the fourth commandment never enjoined the keeping of the seventh day, and read Exodus 20:8: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” “There,” said he, “thousands of people haven’t discernment enough to see that the seventh day is not commanded;” and again, “God never blessed the seventh day, but only the Sabbath institution.”
Could it be possible that the man thought he had given all of the fourth commandment in Ex. 20:8? Verses 9 and 10 read: “Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God,” etc. Could it be possible he never read Gen. 2:3: “And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it”? He admitted he could not find any place in the New Testament that said the Sabbath had been changed, but claimed examples to prove it, and of course failed to find them. But about as strong evidence as he had was, “the fact that the first day is so universally observed shows there must be a divine appointment for it.” Would not that kind of an argument prove a divine appointment for lying; for it is a fact that it is quite universal? We need not dwell further upon such a mass of contradictions. May the Spirit of God help to open the eyes of the blind, that they may see his truth in all its beauty. The church was filled to hear the review. May God bless the word spoken.